Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Testing like the TSA.
David Heinemeier Hansson on testing too much
Users are a terrible thing. Systems would be infinitely more stable without them.
Michael T. Nygard.
You want a dot operator in PHP?
Matthew Leffler
eval(str_replace('.', '->', $code_with_dot_operator))
Everyone can be taught to sculpt: Michelangelo would have had to be taught not to. So it is with great programmers.
Alan J. Perlis
All programmers are optimists.
Frederick Brooks
When you want to do something differently from the rest of the world, it's a good idea to look into whether the rest of the world knows something you don't.
Anonymous
Inside every complex program is a simple program trying to get out.
Anonymous
If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.
Anonymous
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Henry Spencere
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Alan J. Perlis